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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






2. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






3. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






4. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






5. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






6. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






7. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






8. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






9. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






10. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






11. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






12. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






13. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






14. A short saying with a moral.






15. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






16. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






17. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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18. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






19. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






20. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






21. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






22. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






23. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






24. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






25. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






26. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






27. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






28. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






29. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






30. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






31. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






32. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






33. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






34. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






35. The main character of a literary work.






36. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






37. A four line stanza in a poem.






38. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






39. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






40. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






41. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






42. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






43. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






44. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






45. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






46. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






47. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






48. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






49. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






50. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.